Once again ERNW put on the best hacker conference in the universe! We had the most players ever with 5 teams playing a highly modified version of GRIDLOCKED. We broke another record by getting to bed before 3AM.

Attention Packet Warriors, the annual HSK Invitational will be held at the Dayton Marriott on Sep. 5, 2014. Teams are currently being informed of their seats. We will have at least 1 pickup team from the local area, random speakers and a “ringer”. More details will be posted in the coming weeks or can be found at the DC8 website. Come out and support your favorite combatants. The event is open to the public.

A just released white paper describes some of the work being done to create a unified Cyber Simulation Standard and a novel approach to training and assessing Cyber Warriors. In the near future, we will start to release historic campaign primitives used to run Packetwars Battles in the Scenarios Definition Language (SDL) format. Stay tuned….

We will hold our annual Packetwars Battle in Heidelberg Germany at Day-Con’s sister conference Troopers March 19, 2014. The speaker line up looks great and the ERNW crew will be helping make it a memorabilia event. If you have never been I suggest you go. It is the best conference in the world!

Fighting out of Paris, team PETZ, beat out the other RED teams by successfully accomplishing their primary objective and scoring the most points. This year’s Hacksec Packetwars invitational was one of the best we have ever had. It witnessed the graduation of the first 4 certified Packetwars Cyber Warriors and the defeat of last year’s champions ZLF (Zombie Liberation Front). Everyone played hard and had fun so by all accounts was a success.

The 7th annual Packetwars Invitational Battle will be held in Dayton, Ohio on September 20th, 2013 from 10AM-2PM at the Dayton Marriott. Come out and r00t for you favorite team or catch-up with the your friendly neighborhood hackers and visiting researchers.

We will also field a pickup team. So if you want to play let me know. Seats are limited and will be filled on a first come first serve basis.

A great time was had by all. The Living Dead anti-Defamation League won a close battle that came down to the last minute (as usual). Troopers 13 was a great way to kick of the new year and truly has taken the slot of “Best Con Ever!”